Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Anton 2 on November 18, 2021, 13:03
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A few Chinese cabbage questions if you don't mind.
I sprayed mine about two weeks ago as they were starting to look like lace on the outside. Yesterday I found they were absolutely full of caterpillars. Do I keep on spraying?
Frost is imminent in this part of the world. How frost-resistant are they?
Can the cabbages be frozen?
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I've been trying for some time to grow Chinese cabbage Anton ours got the dreaded caterpillars on them so I gave the plants to the compost bin and gave up as a bad job but depending on the damage I suppose you could give them a second chance after spraying to get rid of the caterpillars I'm not sure how frost resistant they are outdoors because ours where in the poly tunnel
anyway i must say you did well to get them to that stage because nearly all ours run to seed and what didn't the caterpillars had a feat on it was the caterpillars last supper as I sprayed the plants before putting them in the compost bin :D
but we will have another go with Chinese cabbage next year with another variety and see what happens
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Thanks Rowlandwells.
Last year I did really well with the plants but I put them in a lot earlier, so they even started regrowing after I had cut out the centre rather than taking out the whole cabbage.
I started them off in pots but planting was delayed this year because of the biblical downpours.
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They aren't frost hardy and they don't freeze. My CC and pakchoi are under a layer of fleece to keep them a bit warmer, but if we get a hard frost they are all going to be history. :(
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Thanks for the tip.